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metinbhr · 5 years

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Arin Mirkan was the legend of Kobane. Sometimes in history the role of an individual can be as essential as a whole group. According to various media reports Arin detonated a bomb when she knew she was going to be captured by ISIS because she did not wanted to be captured alive by them but there was a lot more in this action than has been reported.

The account which I have heard from several people- all of whom are still alive- and were on the ground at the time is a little bit different from what has been reported in the media. At the time of battle for Kobane, #ISIS fighters had seized part of the strategic #Mishtenur hill overlooking the city of Kobane.

At that time the number of Kurdish fighters who were still on the ground and had not been killed or captured -in that area -by ISIS was less than a few dozens. At this time there was a small meeting in which people concluded that they did not have enough forces and they should tactically retreat and wait for reinforcement, At this meeting Arin disagrees and announces that retreat would be strategically wrong and she would hold the fort for as long as she can.

A few hours later when the news of her death reaches other fighters, they decide to come back and they are supported with reinforcement shortly thereafter. I should mention that at the same time in the surrounding Kobane villages several fights were still ongoing but hearing of Arin's brave act creates a spirit of solidarity for other #YPG fighters to take the city house by house and neighborhood by neighborhood. In a situation where many people had lost heart she lifted up their spirit by her courage. In reality in the beginning YPG did not even have control over even one neighborhood in Kobane and they only controlled a few houses.

If you had heard a different account and believe it to be true I would be glad to research this further.

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waltb31 · 5 years

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The anguish of a mother. A Kurdish mother’s child murdered by fascist @rterdogan. Murdered by illegitimate criminal @realdonaldtrump asinine decision. ISIS terrorists escaping. All for a Trump Tower business deal. Despicable reprehensible cold blooded murder. This must not stand. Trump must go. #KurdsBetrayedByTrump #ImpeachTrump #Repost from @7narin.mq (@regrid_) #saverojava #rojava #prayforrojava #rojhalat #bakur #bashur #stop_the_turkish_attak_on_rojava #kurdish #kurd #kerdogan =#Daesh #erdoganterorist #riseup4rojava #qamishlo #standupwiththekurds #NoFlyZone4Rojava #Derîk #efrin #hawler #kidsrights #humansright #StandWithTheKurds #turkeyisnotourfriend #nofriendsbuthemountains #slemania @unitednations @unicef @realdonaldtrump @ivankatrump @flotus @g7 @bundeskanzlerin @emmanuelmacron @nato @amnesty @amnestyusa https://www.instagram.com/p/B3j1tQDgYnv/?igshid=murc0rna1hyo

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bountyofbeads · 5 years

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Trump Declares ‘Time for Us to Get Out’ of Syria as Allies Object https://nyti.ms/2p34agB

#BREAKING Man(Trump) Who Went Broke Running Casinos Brags Of His 'Great And Unmatched Wisdom'

'I, in my great and unmatched wisdom...'

-- Donald Trump, 11:38 am on a Monday in America

"As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!). They must, with Europe and others, watch over..."

"....the captured ISIS fighters and families. The U.S. has done far more than anyone could have ever expected, including the capture of 100% of the ISIS Caliphate. It is time now for others in the region, some of great wealth, to protect their own territory. THE USA IS GREAT!" Donald J. Trump, Monday October 7, 2019 at 11:38 AM ET

"You don't read and can't spell. You don't know anything about history or geography. You don't understand how trade deficits work. You were surprised to find out islands are surrounded by water. You threatened a lawsuit if your college transcripts were released. You are a moron!" FACTS DO MATTER @WilDonnelly

Donald Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds is another harrowing reminder that his foreign policy approach is to always do what is best for Vladimir Putin because that is who he is really working for.

Some of President Trump's strongest supporters are criticizing his decision to clear the way for a Turkish military operation near Syria's border that would sweep away U.S.-backed Kurdish forces. Senator Lindsey Graham called it a "big win for ISIS."

Trump Declares ‘Time for Us to Get Out’ of Syria as Allies Object

By Peter Baker | Published Oct. 7, 2019 Updated 11:43 a.m. ET | New York Times | Posted October 7, 2019 12:15 PM ET |

WASHINGTON — President Trump vowed on Monday to pull back from military involvement in the Middle East and leave it to others “to figure the situation out,” even as one of his strongest supporters condemned him for abandoning allies and emboldening regional enemies.

In a series of Twitter messages, the president defended his decision to clear the way for a Turkish military operation that would sweep away America’s Kurdish allies near the Syrian border, arguing that the internecine conflict among forces in the region was not a top priority for a war-weary United States.

“I held off this fight for almost 3 years, but it is time for us to get out of these ridiculous Endless Wars, many of them tribal, and bring our soldiers home,” Mr. Trump wrote. “WE WILL FIGHT WHERE IT IS TO OUR BENEFIT, AND ONLY FIGHT TO WIN. Turkey, Europe, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Russia and the Kurds will now have to figure the situation out.”

The president’s abrupt decision overrode the objections of the Pentagon and State Department, which sought to maintain a small American troop presence in northeastern Syria, and caught even some of Mr. Trump’s top allies off guard. One of the top Republican hawks in Congress quickly castigated the president and promised to try to sanction Turkey if it followed through with its plans.

“If I didn’t see Donald Trump’s name on the tweet, I would have thought it was Obama’s rationale for getting out of Iraq,” Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and a top backer of the president’s, said on Fox News.

As with President Barack Obama’s decision to pull out American troops from Iraq in 2011, Mr. Graham said, this would create a vacuum for remnants of the Islamic State, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and others to surge forward again.

“This is a big win for Iran and Assad, a big win for ISIS,” Mr. Graham said. “I will do everything I can to sanction Turkey if they step one foot in northeastern Syria. That will sever my relationship with Turkey. I think most of the Congress feels that way.”

Mr. Graham said he would also introduce a nonbinding resolution asking Mr. Trump to reconsider his move, which he called “shortsighted and irresponsible.” The president’s assertion that the Islamic State has been defeated is “the biggest lie being told by this administration,” Mr. Graham added.

The announcement set off a swift and bipartisan backlash from other lawmakers as well, with some of the president’s closest allies on Capitol Hill taking to Twitter to denounce the decision, all while carefully avoiding the president’s name.

Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, a member of the House Republican leadership, called withdrawing United States forces from northern Syria “a catastrophic mistake.” Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, said it would be “a grave mistake that will have implications far beyond Syria.”

Liz Cheney ✔@Liz_Cheney

Withdrawing US forces from Northern Syria is a catastrophic mistake that puts our gains against ISIS at risk and threatens US security.

This decision ignores lesson of 9/11. Terrorists thousands of miles away can and will use their safe-havens to launch attacks against America.

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Nikki Haley, Mr. Trump’s former ambassador to the United Nations, joined the criticism. “We must always have the backs of our allies, if we expect them to have our back,” she wrote on Twitter. “The Kurds were instrumental in our successful fight against ISIS in Syria. Leaving them to die is a big mistake. #TurkeyIsNotOurFriend.”

Senator Mitt Romney, Republican of Utah, shared a tweet from Mr. Graham and added his own thoughts. “The President’s decision to abandon our Kurd allies in the face of an assault by Turkey is a betrayal,” he wrote. “It says that America is an unreliable ally; it facilitates ISIS resurgence; and it presages another humanitarian disaster.”

Mr. Trump got little support from lawmakers, but some conservatives came to his defense. “Some will cast any deal w/ Turkey as @realDonaldTrump getting close w/ a dictator,” Hugh Hewitt, the talk show host, wrote. “It’s not. It’s dealing with the realities that we can’t stay forever.”

Mr. Trump came to office promising to get out of overseas wars, contending that the country’s military involvement in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has been largely a waste of lives and money with little to show for it.

A similarly sudden decision last winter to pull American troops out of Syria prompted Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to resign, and Brett McGurk, the special presidential envoy to the coalition fighting the Islamic State, accelerated his own planned departure in protest.

The Senate, led by Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, relayed their displeasure in January when it voted overwhelmingly to rebuke Mr. Trump over his planned withdrawal of military forces from Syria and Afghanistan.

Mr. Trump later walked back his decision in Syria to some extent, but has been frustrated not to be doing more to extricate the United States from entanglements in the region. His supporters said the latest move should therefore not be a surprise and the Kurds had fair warning.

The decision came after a telephone call with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey. American officials indicated that the 100 to 150 United States military personnel deployed to northeastern Syria would be pulled back in advance of any Turkish operation but that they would not be completely withdrawn from Syria.

The Kurdish forces in the area, part of the Syrian Democratic Forces, or S.D.F., have been the most reliable American ally in the region for years, a critical element in recapturing territory once controlled by the Islamic State. But Turkey has long considered the Kurdish fighters to be terrorists and has lobbied the United States to abandon support for them.

“The United States was supposed to be in Syria for 30 days, that was many years ago,” Mr. Trump wrote on Monday. “We stayed and got deeper and deeper into battle with no aim in sight.” Now, he said, it is time to leave.

Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump

The United States was supposed to be in Syria for 30 days, that was many years ago. We stayed and got deeper and deeper into battle with no aim in sight. When I arrived in Washington, ISIS was running rampant in the area. We quickly defeated 100% of the ISIS Caliphate,.....

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He offered little sympathy for the fate of America’s Kurdish allies: “The Kurds fought with us,” he wrote, “but were paid massive amounts of money and equipment to do so.”

Mr. Trump has been particularly irritated that the United States continues to pay to detain thousands of Islamic State fighters. For months, he has tried to pressure European states and others to take those fighters who originated from there, only to run into strong resistance.

“Europe did not want them back, they said you keep them USA!” Mr. Trump wrote. “I said ‘NO, we did you a great favor and now you want us to hold them in U.S. prisons at tremendous cost. They are yours for trials.’ They again said ‘NO,’ thinking, as usual, that the U.S. is always the ‘sucker,’ on NATO, on Trade, on everything.”

But if Turkey moves against the Kurds, the S.D.F. could abandon camps to fight the Turks, potentially allowing some 10,000 captured Islamic State fighters, including 2,000 foreigners, to escape. United States military officers were trying to reassure the S.D.F. in hopes of avoiding such a scenario.

Catie Edmondson, Eric Schmitt, Eileen Sullivan and Lara Jakes contributed reporting.

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regismartel · 5 years

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This is the Armenian Genocide all over again

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mensrightsff · 5 years

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RT @NikkiHaley: We must always have the backs of our allies, if we expect them to have our back. The Kurds were instrumental in our successful fight against ISIS in Syria. Leaving them to die is a big mistake. #TurkeyIsNotOurFriend

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go-redgirl · 5 years

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Rand Paul: Trump ‘Once Again Fulfills His Promises’ with Syria Withdrawal

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Monday praised President Donald Trump for his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria, stating the move shows the president continues to fulfill his “promises” to end “endless wars.”

“I stand with @realDonaldTrump today as he once again fulfills his promises to stop our endless wars and have a true America First foreign policy,” Paul, a libertarian who has long opposed intervention abroad, wrote on Twitter.

Paul’s praise comes as neoconservative Republicans are expressing disapproval with President Trump’s decision. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a staunch defender of the president, called the pullout “unnerving to its core.”

“This impulsive decision by the president has undone all the gains we’ve made, thrown the region into further chaos, Iran is licking their chops, and if I’m an ISIS fighter, I’ve got a second lease on life,” Graham told Fox and Friends. “I will do everything I can to sanction Turkey’s military and their economy if they step one foot into Syria.”

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley also criticized the decision, tweeting: “We must always have the backs of our allies, if we expect them to have our back. The Kurds were instrumental in our successful fight against ISIS in Syria. Leaving them to die is a big mistake. #TurkeyIsNotOurFriend.”

Haley’s comments come after the former U.S. diplomat praised President Trump’s foreign policy record as something “every American should be proud of.”

“If you look around the world, President Trump has a record every American should be proud of. In the Middle East, the ISIS caliphate has been destroyed, and we’ve stopped handing billions in cash to Iran that it used to fund terrorism,” she told Fox News ahead of a Sunday fundraiser for the president’s 2020 re-election campaign. “The North Korean regime is no longer testing long-range missiles. America is once again treating the Cuban dictatorship like the pariah it is, and Maduro’s days are numbered in Venezuela.”

The White House on Sunday announced it will remove U.S troops from northern Syria ahead of a Turkish military mission to remove Kurdish forces from the area.

“Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation into Northern Syria,” read the statement. “The United States forces, having defeated the ISIS territorial ‘Caliphate,’ will no longer be in the immediate area.”

In a series of Monday tweets, President Trump defended his decision, saying “the Kurds fought with us,” and they “were paid massive amounts of money and equipment to do so.”

“I held off this fight for almost 3 years, but it is time for us to get out of these ridiculous Endless Wars, many of them tribal, and bring our soldiers home,” the president wrote.

“WE WILL FIGHT WHERE IT IS TO OUR BENEFIT, AND ONLY FIGHT TO WIN,” he added.

President Trump also warned that the U.S. will “totally destroy and obliterate” Turkey’s economy if it wages missions considered “off limits” in the region.